Stripper reel



Jan. 16, 1940.

Original Filed Oct. 24, 1937 L, YOUNG ET AL STRIPPER REEL Patented Jan. 16, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE STRIPPER REEL Original application October 24, 1937, Serial No.

181,667. Divided and this application September 17, 1938, Serial No. 230,405

2 Claims.

This application is a division of application Serial No. 181,667, filed by us October 24, 1937, now United States Patent No. 2,163,389, and is directed to the form of stripper-reel therein dis-- closed and especiallly adapted for use in connection with the wire mill equipment therein described although it may be used with other forms of wire mill equipment.

The principal object of our invention is to so construct a stripper-reel that may be made of greater height than those now in common use and yet be conveniently handled. By this means we are enabled to supply wire in larger quantities than has been heretofore practicable either to such mechanism as described in our prior application above named or tomachines of any kind adapted to utilize wire for any purpose.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates a stripper-reel made in accordance with our invention Figure l is a vertical central section of such reel together with a portion of a support on which it is carried; Figure 2 is a top plan view; and Figure 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 33 of Figure 1.

The stripper-reel legs l0, which are preferably four in number, are long in proportion to the diameter of the reel and converge slightly toward the top of the reel to facilitate the discharge of wire in the bundling operation. The upper end of each leg is provided with an inwardly and downwardly turned portion I l which is welded or otherwise secured to the upper end of a sleeve l2. The lower end of this sleeve is belled as shown at l3 and is connected to the legs by braces 14. The lower ends of the legs are preferably flattened to lit the slots of a standard drawing die and are turned outwardly to form feet i5. These feet I5 serve not only to support the reel but also as stops to prevent the 40 coil of wire wound on the reel from slipping off the reel when it is being transferred from one position to another. Extending between two opposite legs near their upper ends is a hook bar [6 for engagement with the hook of a crane or the like to raise and lower the reel.

In Figure 1 we have shown the reel carried by a support comprising a pan l1 and spider 18 having an anti-friction bearing i9 interposed between them. Carried by the spider i8 is a spindle 20 the upper end of which is adapted to enter the sleeve 12 and form therewith a guide and bearing for the reel. In the upper end of the spindle is a bushing 2| (Figure 3) between which and a pilot or centering pin 22 is an antifriction bearing 23. The conical form of this pin together with the belled form of the sleeve 52 facilitates the positioning of the reel upon the support. The spindle is preferably provided with a dust guard 24 to protect the bearing as.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A stripper-reel for wire mill equipment including legs slightly converging toward the upper end of the reel and having lower ends turned over outwardly to form coil stops, the upper ends H of said legs being turned over inwardly, a central sleeve connected at its upper end to the inturned portions of the legs, a base including a central spindle, a conical pilot pin rotatably mounted on the upper end of said spindle, the

end of the reel and having lower ends turned 2 over outwardly to form coil stops, the upper ends of said legs being turned over inwardly, a central sleeve connected at its upper end to the inturned portions of the legs, a support comprising a base, a table rotatably mounted on said 1 base, said table engaging the legs to support the, reel, a spindle carried by the base and extending up through the table into the sleeve, and a pilot pin carried on said spindle.

LAFE YOUNG. ALFRED A. BOYLE. 

